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          Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary

                                SB 573  (Alarcon)

Hearing Date:5/17/89            Amended:4/28/99        
Consultant: Karen French        Policy Vote:Education  9-4
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BILL SUMMARY: 

SB 573 establishes a one-year telecommunications-based  
pilot project in Los Angeles County for the purpose of  
offering an intensive professional growth program for  
teachers in hard to staff schools.  The bill appropriates  
$1.6 millionfor the purpose of implementing the pilot and  
requires the Los Angeles County Office of Education to  
contract for an independent extensive evaluation of the  
report before continuing or expanding th eprogram.

                         Fiscal Impact (in thousands)
  
Major Provisions        1999-2000             2000-01               2001-02   Fund  

LA Co Office of Ed             $1,600*                    --                
--General

*Costs count toward meeting the Proposition 98 minimum guarantee.

STAFF COMMENTS:  

This bill meets the criteria to be placed on the Suspense  
file.

A hard to staff school is defines as one in which 20% of  
the teachers are serving under an internship emergency  
permit, or a waiver granted by the Commission on Teacher  
Credentialing, or have taught less than two years.  CTC  
reports that the most recent data (1996-97) shows that  
approximately 24,051 emergency permits have been issued  
statewide.  Of those, 11,384 were issued to applicants  
teaching in Los Angeles County.